Taking Over The Asylum?
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has questioned whether the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention is fit for our modern age. She told a meeting of the right wing American Enterprise Institute in...
27 Sep 202322min
Hard To Swallow? Farming, Food and Brexit
The UK government has once again postponed border checks for food being imported to the UK from the EU, because it would increase inflation. That’s the fifth time the deadline has been put back. But...
20 Sep 202326min
Voter ID: Democracy Under Pressure
Most people in the UK would take pride in the fact that whatever your political persuasion you can take part in free and fair elections. But two new reports suggest that this right isn’t always all it...
14 Sep 202324min
Pitch Battle - Saudi Sportswashing and Newcastle United
On the weekend that this podcast is released, Saudi Arabia will be playing two international football matches at Newcastle United’s St James Park, against Costa Rica and South Korea - but the results ...
8 Sep 202329min
ULEZ Expansion
London is about to have the world’s largest pollution charging area, as the capital’s outer suburbs are added to the inner city Ultra Low Emission Zone - ULEZ. Drivers of vehicles that don’t meet emi...
28 Aug 202327min
The Life And Death Of Yevgeny Prigozhin
The life and death of Yevgeny Prigozhin tells us much about modern Russia. After spending years in prison, he launched a business career in St Petersburg in the 1990s, supported by former KGB agent ...
24 Aug 202328min
Detained - For Helping Migrants In Distress
Adrian Goldberg hears from Nathan Akehurst a British volunteer, working on a search and rescue boat in the Mediterranean. The vessel - the Sea Eye IV - has been impounded by the Italian authorities a...
24 Aug 202320min
From Trump to "Woke"
Adrian Goldberg hears from former US congressman Joe Walsh, once a member of the low tax, socially conservative Tea Party faction of the Republican party, who supported Donald Trump's presidential cam...
7 Aug 202332min
